I am a voracious reader and wanted to share my reading history with my team so put together a few slides using a data export from Goodreads.

1. I Books
Nick’s Goodreads Data, July 2016

2. I read a book per week on average

3. I’ve read 236 books since 9/2011
(244 weeks)

4. I read about 50 pages per day

5. I read about half fiction and half non-fiction

6. 30% of the fiction I read is SF

7. I read a range of non-fiction, but a lot about business

8. I rate books 0.625 lower on average than others
of Nick’s Ratings

9. My top ~10 favorites, and one to avoid
Title Author Rating
A Planet for Rent Yoss 5
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 5
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino 5
A History of the Future in 100 Objects Adrian Hon 5
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 5
The Unincorporated Man Dani Kollin 5
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb 5
Measure of the Earth Larrie D. Ferreiro 5
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 5
Barbarians at the Gate Bryan Burrough 5
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 5
The Lean Startup Eric Ries 5
The Inevitable Kevin Kelly 1

10. Recency bias vs. Lindy effect